The Emperor's Children

Written by Claire Messud

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27666-7 (0-307-27666-X)

The Emperor’s Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way—and not—in New York City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city... Read more >

When the World Was Steady

Written by Claire Messud

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27951-4 (0-307-27951-0)

In this highly acclaimed novel by the author of The Emperor’s Children, life isn’t all Emmy and Virginia Simpson might have hoped. When Emmy’s marriage to an Australian man ends, she flees her home in Sydney for the tropical paradise of Bali to “find herself”—only to become embroiled with an eclectic... Read more >

The Emperor's Children

Written by Claire Messud

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26419-0 (0-307-26419-X)

From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties... Read more >